Number 5

Well, it's official. Nora can now sing "all I want for Christmas is my two front teeth."


Also, I took Charlotte on Friday to the ENT doc who took out Nora's tonsils a couple years ago because Charlotte has sleep apnea too. Hence, all the photos of Charlotte sleeping on Kris. Here's another from this morning:

Yes, she's sleeping like that.

The doc said she's too young to really do anything about it (that's what I thought, but the RN we saw on Tuesday for Charlotte's double ear infection said they do take them out this young). Anyway, I'm relieved and annoyed at the same time. I didn't want her to have to go through that (the ENT said hopefully her throat will grow faster than her tonsils, so the problem will fix itself), but I was annoyed that we paid $20 and spent 2 hours to have the ENT look in her ears and throat and say, "well, there's nothing we can do." I wish the RN had told me that on Tuesday. Oh well. Guess Charlotte will be sleeping with us for a while.

Halloween

Well, we had a good Halloween. Nora got so much candy that she didn't even notice when I took about a third of it out for Kris & I (the good stuff, of course). Here's the loot:


Nora was the Corpse Bride (corpsebridemovie.warnerbros.com/) and Charlotte was a bat (I tried to think of something that would coordinate with Nora's costume, and something I could get cheap!) Nora's costume was improvised, of course. That's half the fun. Hopefully I'll get better at improvising before Nora starts to care what her costumes look like!



We went to the high school where they had booths set up. After we made the rounds there (where the teenagers gave hand-fulls of candy), we went to a church near our house where they had "Trunk or treat." The congregants decorate their cars and park them in a big circle, then you go around to each one to trick-or-treat. You can vote for the best one when you get to the end, where they're serving hot cocoa. Again, lots of candy. Then we went to Kris's parents for a little while. A parent could get used to this-- I wonder if Nora will ever ask to go to a neighborhood to go trick-or-treating. She did ask on our way home, when we were going to go to some houses. But seemed ok when we told her it was too cold.